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Monday, September 19, 2016

Making babies without female eggs

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A gigantic biological breakthrough overthrows a 200-year-old golden rule for making babies. According to the old rule, the only way to make ...

Google respects the private lives of cows

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Google's famous Street View gadget has been reprimanded, from time to time, for displaying roadside individuals who are easily identifi...

Question that no longer concerns me

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Prostate gland . Do you see where it is, just between the bladder and the penis? Where it was , as far as I'm concerned. I lost mine...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

Abbott tells Europeans how to run the world

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The Sydney Morning Herald tells us that former PM Tony Abbott addressed an Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists in Prague on ...
Saturday, September 17, 2016

Names and photos of 238 victims of terrorism in France since “Charlie”

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Click here to access a block of 238 photos, in alphabetical surname order, with links to brief descriptions of victims of terrorism in Fran...
Friday, September 16, 2016

Beautiful song by Francis Cabrel

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Click YouTube for a full-screen version Francis Cabrel was the object this evening of a wonderful documen...

Europe ready to discuss Britain's departure

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At the Bratislava meeting, European nations revealed that they would like to start discussions with the UK as soon as possible on the subjec...

Interesting tweets

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I like these tweets from @ boldatheism     Click to enlarge slightly

Silly ideas form in my imagination

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Two days ago, I was working calmly on my iMac when the electricity suddenly disappeared, just after 4 o'clock in the afternoon. There we...

Proud to be British

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Diane James —a businesswomen and healthcare professional—has just replaced Nigel Farage as the new leader of the UK Independence Party....
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Australian magpies

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I've always been surprised by the fact that French people seem to know nothing at all about our Australian magpies. Our birds Down ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Dinosaur for sale in France

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An American owner has decided to put his excellent dinosaur up for sale in France. Before the auction takes place, the skeleton is on displa...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Going, going… gone

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David Cameron , 49, ex-PM of the United Kingdom, has announced his intention to abandon his current job as a Tory parliamentarian. He exp...
Monday, September 12, 2016

Google's latest voice is not bad at all

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Click here to access a short French-language article about Google's latest achievements in synthetic voices. Samples start with well-ch...

Do dolphins use an advanced language?

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The Russian scientist Vyacheslav Ryabov , of the Crimean marine station in Karadag, affirms that the language of dolphins is just as com...

World butchery championship in Australia

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A short news article in the French press reveals that the world butchery championship was held in Australia, but it indicates neither the da...
Sunday, September 11, 2016

Plantu cartoon

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French police-woman

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Dramatic interview of a brave young French police-woman, Magali , who was obliged to fire back at a terrorist at the wheel of a big tru...

Egodates

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An egodate is a political candidate with no chances of being elected, who's purely on an ego trip. In France, they're rampant at pr...

The Falling Man

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This silent image of a single individual dropping to earth, taken by the news photographer Richard Drew , symbolizes every human being w...
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William Skyvington
Gamone, Choranche, France
After working in various computing jobs, I retired to an old farm property in the Vercors mountain range, on the edge of the French Alps, where I spend my time writing, playing with the Internet and looking out upon the slopes in the company of my dog Fitzroy, admiring wonders created by the Big Bang and Evolution.
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